| | | A.__The person and the mother of the child are married to | | each other and the child is born during the marriage; |
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| | | B.__The person and the mother of the child were married to | | each other and the child is born within 300 days after the | | marriage is terminated by death, annulment, divorce or | | declaration of invalidity or after a decree of separation; |
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| | | C.__Before the birth of the child, the person and the mother | | of the child married each other in apparent compliance with | | law, even if the attempted marriage is or could be declared | | invalid, and the child is born during the invalid marriage | | or within 300 days after its termination by death, | | annulment, divorce or declaration of invalidity or after a | | decree of separation; |
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| | | D.__After the birth of the child, the person and the mother | | of the child married each other in apparent compliance with | | law, whether or not the marriage is or could be declared | | invalid, and the person voluntarily asserted parentage of | | the child and: |
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| | | (1)__The assertion is in a record filed with the State | | Registrar of Vital Statistics; or |
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| | | (2)__The person agreed to be and is named as the | | child's parent on the child's birth certificate; or |
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| | | E.__For the first 2 years of the child's life, the person | | resided in the same household with the child and openly held | | out the child as that person's own. |
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| | | 2.__Rebuttal of presumption.__A presumption of parentage | | established under this section may be rebutted only by an | | adjudication under subchapter 6. |
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| | | 3.__Effect of presumption on other parents.__The fact that a | | person is presumed to be a parent does not prevent another person | | from being a parent of the same child even if this results in the | | child having more than 2 parents. |
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| | | 4.__Parental rights and responsibilities if a child has more | | than one presumed parent.__If a child has more than one presumed | | parent, no presumed parent is disestablished by the existence of | | another presumed parent.__The court shall determine the parental | | rights of the presumed parents in accordance with section 1653. |
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| | | (This is section 204 of the UPA.) |
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